One of the things I’ve learned in this process is the importance of advocating for yourself.
INTERVIEW: Suzette Mullen, Author of The Only Way Through is Out
INTERVIEW: Susan Kiyo Ito, Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
In a boundary-breaking memoir Susan Kiyo Ito unveils the truth of her origins.
INTERVIEW: Zachary Pace, Author of I Sing to Use the Waiting
This collection forms a mosaic of Zachary Pace as an individual along with the 1980s-2000s so familiar to many of us.
INTERVIEW: Agata Izabela Brewer, Author of The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
The Hunger Book, which includes recipes, is an unforgettable meditation on motherhood and addiction, resilience and love.
INTERVIEW: Jami Nakamura Lin, Author of The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
In The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Jami Nakamura Lin pushes the boundaries of craft as she struggles with the loss of her father.
INTERVIEW: Janna Marlies Maron, Founding Editor of Under the Gum Tree, on Coordinating AWP Offsite Events
We speak to Janna Maron about organizing CNF-infused offsite events at the annual AWP conference.
INTERVIEW: Clancy Martin, Author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of a Suicidal Mind
If the line of work you’ve chosen involves emotional sensitivity, you have to be very careful with yourself.
INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances.
INTERVIEW: Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki, Author of Dancing Into the Light: An Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East
The book only goes to a certain point in my life, to where the lights went out in my life, and then restarted.
INTERVIEW: Mary Helen Stefaniak, Author of The Six-Minute Memoir
I hate to call the essays upbeat, because a lot of them are about serious and sad things. But they still somehow convey that I’m alive and well…
